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You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.

Jean Lorrain

The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

Jean Lorrain

The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

Jean Lorrain

Jean Lorrain

Jean Lorrain

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Born: August 9, 1855

Died: June 30, 1906 (aged 50)

Bio: Jean Lorrain, born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist school.

Known for:

Monsieur de Phocas (1901)
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
Le crime des riches (1905)
La maison Philibert

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